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Cut Through the Clutter: Why Storytelling Matters for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Michelle Chen , an independent scholar who recently graduated with a PhD in mass communications with a focus on advocacy, activism and social change. Women for Women International does a good job of keeping their supporters updated with stories of women impacted by their program. Millennials are the largest generation in the U.S.

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Interview: Brigitte Hoyer Gosselink on the Google AI Impact Challenge

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My early career was in international development, working for the U.S. Agency for International Development and for an international NGO. Thorn use AI to analyze the content of online ads to identify clusters of suspicious activity. Another example is ZSL ’s application of AI to monitor biodiversity.

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How Charities Get Tech Support in Uganda

Tech Soup

For his day job, Robert runs Communications without Borders and the NGO Kikandwa Rural Communities Development Organization. As an unpaid volunteer, he organizes NetSquared in-person events where people from NGOs from all over the region come to talk shop and help each other. We also have individuals who are not attached to an NGO.

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How Drones Are Being Used to Benefit Humankind

Tech Soup

Conservation mapping and 3D imaging. In December 2013, drones from the NGO Direct Relief were put to work assessing damage and participating in search and rescue operations in the super typhoon Haiyan-stricken Philippines. They also show promise in environmental monitoring, rescue activities, and agriculture. Image 3 : U.S.

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A NetSquared Happy Holidays

Tech Soup

The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in. Mukono, Uganda: Digital Activism. Taipei, Taiwan: 民眾、社群與 NGO 的協作:飲水地. Image : Doxieone / CC BY-NC-SA. IMAGE ATTRIBUTION GUIDELINES Image Name: Author / License. The link need to be like so: Africa.

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Digital Volunteerism – Effective Disaster Relief the GreenTech Way

Tech Soup

Ushahidi is an NGO project from Kenya that hosts a free online service that collects reports about a stricken area via mobile phone or computer and then maps them so relief efforts can respond. Image: AlphachimpStudio. One of the main ones that anchors this work is Ushahidi.

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What if Cloud Vendors Go Out of Business or Delete Your Account?

Tech Soup

This week we got a great comment from a TechSoup member to our Cloud Technology and the NGO Community blog post. In our TechSoup Global NGO cloud survey we found that people in nonprofits and libraries are indeed concerned about data security in the cloud the world over. Image: Cloud security from Shutterstock.